[TRL] The eUK meta, is it morribund? / Defensive Dictatorship

Day 3,092, 02:11 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by FightAndProduce

Lately, I’ve noticed that our entire meta system has ground to a halt, not only that but the game mechanics have changed to a point where we must reconsider the option of a defensive dictatorship at the very least. I’ll go through a few things which show how the meta could be crumbling. I really don’t intend to point fingers and blame individuals, but the problems exist and they will be addressed.

Congress inactivity


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While this may be down to the fact things are going okay, the eUK congress still has been very inactive. Even during Rathena’s terms it wasn’t very active, they don’t really keep the CP to account (which is their main job) and they don’t propose things for the most part.

-Committee’s have failed due to the lack of activity from congress members, very few people in the committee’s ever did anything (barring the Citizenship committee, which is successful)

-I’ll tell you how inactive congress is, they don’t seem to realise that AMD hasn’t proposed a budget yet.

-Parties are not putting up good people, and if the people they’re putting up are the best they have, they need to attract members who know what they’re doing.

This inactivity in congress becomes incompetence, as congress cannot fulfill its basic roles.

Chaos


There has recently been a disregard for the meta, no budgets being proposed and Woldys Angels not being actioned (though that is something I should have done during my term) While something has been proposed now, it will not happen due to a lack of a Speaker.

I should say very clearly, the inaction in terms of budgets is not meant to criticise AMD. The CP and congress are meant to compete, the CP wants to get stuff done, congress needs to hold them to account. If a CP wants to try and get around meta and congress doesn’t try and stop them, the meta has been for nothing. That is the fault of congress. They're here to keep him to account.

The decreasing need for a defensive dictatorship



God bless King Woldy, ofc o7.

It’s hard for me to say whether a defensive dictatorship is definitely not worth keeping in place, though it should be discussed, if the defensive dictatorship no longer exists, the meta dies. Its as simple as that.

Increased cost to coup/liberation

With an increase from 200k to 1m, it’s going to be harder for us to keep a defensive dictatorship going. Our income won’t go up, while the cycles of defensive dictatorship may grow longer I don’t think this will make up the increased cost.

Dictatorship upkeep

We don’t know much about this, but it will happen. I’ll run through a few hypotheticals to see where we might stand with dictatorship upkeep

Upkeep cost is fixed to the size of the country

We’re talking about moderate costs with this hypothetical, we’re a mid sized country and so it may be possible we could continue with the defensive dictatorship but the cost will provoke massive debate. This coupled with the increased cost of a coup would almost definitely make this unsustainable. I’d say this is reasonably likely to be how upkeep will work

Upkeep cost is a set value, the same across the world

I’d say that it would be low-mid costs, we’d be in the same boat as all the other countries in terms of costs, and our income isn’t too bad. We could continue with a defensive dictatorship with this model (if the coup costs aren’t too much to bear) However I’d say this is unlikely to be the case, the only way I could see this happen is if eRepublik wants to keep upkeep costs low to keep people who want to be a dictator interested and willing to spend money to get there, costs which are too high wouldn’t be good for that.

Remember, when we’re talking about any erepublik decision, it is keeping the whales online at all costs.

Upkeep cost works alongside determination, as determination increases the upkeep cost increases

So there would be a base value or a starting upkeep cost based on the size of the country, but as determination rises the upkeep cost is multiplied by the determination. This would have very high costs, all countries would feel the pinch. It would stop defensive dictatorships in their tracks. My point before stands though, it would also really discourage dictatorship players. But at the same time they are bringing down all the defensive dictatorships, which would encourage dictatorship players.

I honestly don’t know how likely this is, though I think it's somewhat feasible. Never say never

None of the above

eRepublik always amaze us with their abilities to screw up on implementation and game design. They introduced taxes to CO and Medals, and instead of making politics more worthwhile and making CO and Medal tax separate they just lumped it in with Work Tax. So really who knows? However I do think one of the above situations will occur.

So what does the eUK need to do?

It needs to tell its congress to buck up its ideas or it's getting replaced. The eUK needs to start discussing what we want to do in terms of dictatorship or democracy and we need to wait until some idiot amazing person to liberate the eUK and waste 1m cc, then we can implement a new system or stay with what we have.

Thanks for Reading!
-FightAndProduce (Opinionated)